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456 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 16 September 1884.
in translation:
...ave to write a book — I can’t do that. Miss Begemann has taken poison — in a moment of despair...
...at here, but complicated here by taking poison. She had often said to me when we were taking a quiet...
One morning, though, she fell to the ground. I still only thought it was a little weakness. But it go...
...mind, and I was absorbed in this sad story. Now she’s tried this and it has not succeeded, I think...
in note 11:
In letter 457 there is a suggestion that Margot might be suffering from religious mania. See also let...
in note 10:
Margot was a partner in her brother Louis’s linen mill. Letter 469 tells us that when her brother w...
in note 9:
Margot may have stayed with Dr Petrus Johannes Idenburg and his wife Rosine Alexandrine Frederike van...
in note 6:
...pparently he wanted to arrange a marriage with Margot, who proved not entirely averse, but it came up...
in note 4:
Margot Begemann, who lived next door to the Van Goghs. Ill. 2124. Mrs van Gogh ran a sewing class at ...
457 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 16 September 1884.
in translation:
...it, to tell you that I do have hopes that the patient will get over it — although I do foresee tha...
... or religious mania. Now, though, because the patient was treated immediately after the first sympto...
...l you how, in the very letter I received today, she says ‘that no one in her family understands he...
...with the B. family — they were very unkind to her at first — and even on the day she left by no ...
... place her sisters, have sent a letter to the patient, which was a good deal more sympathetic in ton...
...he cause of desperation wasn’t bad news about her fortune, but the way they accused her of being t...
in note 5:
Margot Begemann was 43.
in note 2:
The unmarried sisters who lived with Margot Begemann in the house called ‘Nune Ville’ at no. 24 B...
458 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Sunday, 21 September 1884.
in translation:
...o say that I’ve been to Utrecht myself to see her. That I also had a talk with the doctor she’s ...
...t the constitution is very shocked — although she’s getting better — that in fact — accordin...
Obviously I’ll always remain friends with her in any case, perhaps we’re mutually too much attach...
I spent almost the whole day with her then.
You mustn’t believe what you once wrote to me, ‘that she must be an angel of patience’ &c.
...I know more than I did at first about what made her so desperate, do you know what it was? Her famil...
She’s still very worked up against her sisters, although she’s calming down, and in fact those si...
I find it damned touching that this woman says in a sort of triumph, while she was so weak, after al...
It’s a pity that I didn’t meet her earlier — say 10 years ago or so. Now she gives me the impre...
And in the condition in which I met her, it seems to me, a good deal too much had been bungled.
in note 4:
...n, daughter of Margot’s brother Louis: ‘Aunt Go was an uneducated woman but she had a perceptive ...
459 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, Sunday, 21 September 1884.
in note 3:
The visit was to Margot Begemann and the doctor who was treating her, so there was not much ‘happen...
462 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, between about Wednesday, 24 and about Monday, 29 September 1884.
in note 1:
...ng to do with guests but everything to do with Margot’s return home – on 11 November 1884 Mrs van...
463 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Tuesday, 30 September 1884.
in translation:
...ed because I fear it will be a long time before she recovers completely. Perhaps it will also take...
464 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Thursday, 2 October 1884.
in translation:
...h she and I have sorrow enough and trouble enough — but regret — neither of us. Look here —her
I certainly believe or know for sure that she loves me,
I ,, believe ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, I ,, her
As regards this woman in question, how it must end remains a mystery to me, but neither she nor I wil...
I fear for her that the old religion will numb and freeze her again with that damned icy coldness tha...
I want her, I’ll have her!.... and — if she escapes me you’ll see the things that I’ll do to ...
but she too, instinctively, ,, ,,she
...d to suppress the active, indeed brilliant principle in her, and made her passive for ever and ever.
If only they hadn’t broken her when she was young! Or if they’d left it at that and not driven he...
Theo, I feel such damned pity for this woman, precisely because her age and just possibly a liver and...
...tion found my suspicion was correct, that Margot Begemann was behind it and would have given me the ...
in note 15:
.... Drawings known to have once belonged to Margot Begemann are the watercolours Scheveningen woman se...
in note 11:
It had previously been suggested that Margot might suffer from religious mania (letter 457). Margot�...
in note 1:
...pparently he wanted to arrange a marriage with Margot, who proved not entirely averse, but it came up...
465 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Thursday, 9 October 1884.
in translation:
...had a relatively good letter from Utrecht, that she’s recovered to the extent that she can go to T...
in note 14:
See for this ‘business’ of Margot Begemann’s: letter 456, n. 10.
466 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Wednesday, 22 October 1884.
in note 2:
...ncent and divert his mind from his proposal to Margot. On Monday, 27 October 1884 Mr van Gogh wrote t...
469 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 14 November 1884.
in translation:
Margot Begemann is coming back to Nuenen one of these days — I’ve always remained good friends wi...
...he contrary, her family has obligations towards her, and in the past she put her own money into the ...
The issue here is that if she and I choose to love each other, be attached to each other — indeed h...
..., too, but was such and remained such that both she and I could talk to him, and it was precisely ...
Three days before, after all, I had already warned him and said, I’m concerned about your sister.
...eople here in the neighbourhood, either in sickness or when they were in some trouble or other. she
And she and I actually became attached during Ma’s illness.
She has just written to me: should there be any people sick in Nuenen, do go and visit them and see i...
...ve nothing to do with it, because you spoke to me, who can take it, and you did not speak to her.her
in note 10:
Margot had three sisters: see letter 457, n. 2.
in note 7:
Mrs van Gogh told Theo on 11 November: ‘Margot’s homecoming is approaching’ (FR b2262), but it ...
473 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 6 December 1884.
in translation:
...taking back my decided disapproval of their attitude in this matter — or of concealing it.Margot
in note 2:
Although there was talk in letter 469 of Margot’s coming back from Utrecht at around this time, she...
474 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Wednesday, 10 December 1884.
in note 2:
...ut any path, we still regret the business with Margot, who isn’t here any more, and I think she’s...
574 To Willemien van Gogh. Paris, late October 1887.
in translation:
...ase me if you would write and tell me how Margot Begemann is doing and how they’re doing at De Gro...
in note 14:
...n September 1884 Van Gogh had proposed to Margot Begemann, who lived next door to his parents in Nue...
800 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 5 and Friday, 6 September 1889.
in note 31:
...f ‘another person’ probably refers to Margot Begemann. In one of his letters to Willemien, he sa...
812 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 21 October 1889.
in translation:
... gladly, but above all, too, I would like Margot Begemann to have a painting of mine. But getting it...
in note 9:
...works received by Anna and Jet Carbentus. Margot Begemann owned only early paintings by Van Gogh, na...

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1 essay item found

Correspondents / Preservation of the letters
in correspondents_4:
...and with his girlfriends Sien Hoornik and Margot Begemann, but nothing of this has survived.See also...
...or instance, with the correspondence with Margot Begemann. She was the Van Goghs’ neighbour in Nue...

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2 other items found

Overview of all the letters
in overview:
Margot Begemann, girlfriend in Nuenen
Chronology
in 1884:
... Has a relationship with a neighbour, Margot Begemann, who has taken over his mother’s sewing ...
Mid-September-early October Margot tries to commit suicide and is taken to a doctor in Utrecht. ...

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15 letters, 1 essay item and 2 other items found

15 letters found

1 essay item found

2 other items found

Vincent van Gogh, The Letters